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Dead Poet's Society or Freedom Writers

Students are expected to write a compare/contrast comparing and contrasting "Dead Poet's Society" and "Freedom Writers".

Rubric for evaluating a 1 paragraph essay on An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

Compare/Contrast essay scoring rubric.

-Cite strong and thorough textural evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain. -Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including words with multiple meanings or language that is particularly fresh, engaging or beautiful.

A Rap is basically poetry that is said to a beat. However, Rap doesn't always rhyme and neither does poetry. Write your own rap about the book you chosen from the Abraham Lincoln Book Award list, to the beat of an existing song or an original beat of your own.

Design a New Book Cover: Use your knowledge of the story and characters to create a new book cover you think would entice readers to pick up this book and read it. The images must be original, either drawn or created with the assistance of computer design. The design is to be displayed on a poster board folded to resemble a book.

Students are to create a movie trailer for the Belleville East reading contest. The book should engage viewers and make the viewers WANT to read the book. Requirements include: 1-2 minutes of video, one quote from the text, one quote from a reviewer, music, main characters, previews of plot, and some editing. Student's video MUST be relevant to the book.

The criteria outlined in the Final Project handout is to be used to develop this presentation.

This rubric can be used with upper-intermediate or advanced classes of any foreign language. Note: No credit will be given if the presentation is read from a script.

To get a job interview you must do something that impresses a company enough to want to get to know you more. A resume may be your only chance to make this impression. Construct a resume based upon a future job that you would like to prepare for or construct a resume based on a current job that you are trying to obtain.

The Julius Caesar Rubric can be used with any type of project.

The Romeo and Juliet Rubric can be used with any type of project.

Read some of the classic versions of the same fairy tales from around the world in order to write their own adaptations to some of their favorite tales. There will be a focus on rehearsing and planning for stories, paying careful attention to fairy tale language and structure through revising and elaborating, and crafting their own versions of an old tale, and adapt it to actual social issues, and create a video performance.

The purpose of this rubric is to allow the student to know what the expectations are for writing a comparing/contrasting essay. The student will compare and contrast the short story "The Lottery" to the movie "The Hunger Games". In preparation for this assignment, the student will have had instruction in the writing process, sentence structure, capitalization, end marks, specific vocabulary, read the book and viewed the movie.

The student will create a project based on a given element of ancient Roman civilization. Student will work in a group or by themselves to create a lesson to teach to the class. The lesson will include comprehensive and in-depth information about their topic as well as a creative element. Individually the student will write a paper over a certain portion of their topic.

The purpose of this rubric is to allow the student to know what the expectations are for writing a comparing/contrasting essay. The student will compare and contrast the short story, "The Lottery" to the movie, "The Hunger Games". In preparation for this assignment, the student will have had instruction in the writing process, sentence structure, capitalization, end marks, specific vocabulary words, read the story and viewed the movie.

This rubric is to grade students on their effort/perseverance, craftsmanship/skill, and creativity/originality.

Using a specific set of questions, students will read a novel independently and answer questions from Bloom's Taxonomy to demonstrate understanding of the novel